Improvement in fastenings tor stays op corsets



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JQ W. BROOKS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters' Patent No. 89,0I8, (lated April 20, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTNINGS FOR STAYS Oli' CORSETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part tif thesame.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. W. BROOKS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk,in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Corsets, consisting of a new and improved method offastening the whalebones or stiffcners of corsets, or other garments;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

I am aware that the ends of the whalebones or stiffeners havebeencovered with a metal cap, put on outside of the pockets containing them,to prevent their ends from wearing through the pockets of the fabric,but the cap is only held to the bones or stiffeners by the pressure ofits spurs, clinched on the inner side of the fabric, and for want of amore perfect union between thecappand the whalebone, the latter isliable to get loose, and by its movement wear the fabric, for,

` unless the bone is held still, the wear at the ends is more upon theinside of the pocket than u'pon the outside.

The cap being put over the ends ofthe bones, which already show a raisedprojection near the edge of the corset, adds so much to the thickness ofthis projection as to give a clumsy appearance to this part of thegarment.

I am also aware that eyelets have been used to fasten the bones ofcorsets by putt-ing them through a hole in the whalebone and clinchingthem upon the outsides of the fabric; ,but the clinchiug process splitsmany of the bones, and while eyelets, as usually clinched upon nothingbut fabric, so double in and pinch the fabric between their two clinchedends as to hold it firmly, intel-posing, as in this case, the bonebetween so reduces the hold ofthe eyelet upon the fabric that it iseasily disengaged, when the garment is ruined.

To obviate these diiculties, and to permanently keep the whalebones orstilfeners from moving in their pockets, is theobject'of this invention.

'Io enable others skilled in the art to make and use to any garment.

Apurpose of ,showing how the ends may beprepared to receive thedifferent forms of fasteners.

The holes or notches in the bones or stiifeners may be of any form,size, number, or position, or their ends out in any shape required tosuit the varied form of fastener desired.

' The holes or notches should not be made so near the ends of the bonesor stiifeners as to be in danger' of splitting out, or so large as totoo much weaken the bones.

d. e fvg lt lj lo l m n represent a number of different shaped metallicfasteners, which may be varied in form and left plain, 01 stamped withany device which the fancy may suggest.

They are provided with two or more prongs, which, in using, are thrustthrough the fabric and the holes in the bones, and clinched on the underside, or through at the side of the bones, as the case may be, andclamped around or upon the bones or stiffeners.

When the bone or stiifener is` not so formed at the point of applyingthe fastener as to prevent its slipping within it when clamped, thefastener may be provided with one or more very short spurs, as at o o,on clamps f and lc, which, in aliixing the fastener, are forcedsuciently into the bone or stiifener to hold it n rmly from slipping.

These fasteners can be cheaply made with dies and stamps prepared forthe purpose.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The device, herein described and represented, for fastening thewhalebone, or stiffener in corsets, and other garments, viz, a metallicclip,.having two or more points, which pass into or through two or moreopenings in the stiffencr, and clinched therein or thereto, ashereindescribed and represented. f

J. W. BROOKS. Witnesses:

BABsoN S. LAnD, FRANK B. Branson.

